NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana has filed several lawsuits accusing pharmaceutical retailer CVS of abusing customer information and using its dominant market position to drive up drug costs and unfairly undermine independent pharmacies, the state’s attorney general said earlier this week. Attorney General Liz Murrill began investigating CVS after the company sent out mass text [...]
Builders are on pace this year to construct the most apartments in central Ohio this century, according to new report from real estate consulting firm Marcus & Millichap. Approximately 7,000 new apartment units are expected to be built this year, the firm notes in its latest report on the Columbus market. “Deliveries in 2025 will [...]
Sens. Louis Blessing III, R-Colerain Township, and Willis Blackshear Jr., D-Dayton, have proposed legislation that would amend the state’s antitrust law to target algorithmic price fixing. Senate Bill 79 would make the use and distribution of a pricing algorithm that uses non-public competitor data a violation of the Valentine Act, the state’s antitrust law which [...]
The professionalization of college sports has prompted concern among team physicians that they will be exposed to a greater risk of being sued by athletes who claim a poor outcome from treatment caused them to lose future earnings. Before July 2021, when college athletes were cleared to be compensated by third parties for the use [...]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to release billions of dollars in funding for the build out of electric vehicle chargers in more than a dozen states. U.S. District Judge Tana Lin in Washington state partially granted a preliminary injunction that sought to free up the money approved under [...]
In a test case for the artificial intelligence industry, a federal judge has ruled that AI company Anthropic didn’t break the law by training its chatbot Claude on millions of copyrighted books. The company is still on the hook and now must go to trial over how it acquired those books by downloading them from [...]
Energy Star claims its blue seal of approval on efficient appliances saves households an average of $450 on their bills per year, yet the program’s future is unclear. The Environmental Protection Agency has announced an agency reorganization plan that would eliminate its Energy Star offices, which could make it more difficult for customers to find [...]
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The Trump administration plans to rescind a nearly quarter-century-old rule that blocks logging on national forest lands, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins announced earlier this week. The roadless rule adopted in the last days of Bill Clinton’s presidency in 2001 long has been criticized by Republican lawmakers, especially in the West [...]
Real estate brokerage company Compass has filed a lawsuit against Zillow, claiming the real estate website is refusing to accept home listings for properties that have been initially advertised for sale elsewhere. In a filing with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, Compass claims that “Zillow has sought to rely [...]
COLUMBUS (AP) — A potential rematch for Ohio’s 9th Congressional District, could be in the works for 2026. That’s after Republican Derek Merrin, a former four-term Republican state representative, announced this week he plans to try again to defeat Democratic U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur, the longest-serving woman in Congress. Merrin, 39, launched his latest campaign [...]